Monitor problem

[Martin Visser]

I would disagree here. For display photographic images, almost no work is
being done by the graphics card. Any basic card running as a frame buffer
(with say 8MB) wouldn't perform much different from the 512MB card that
seems to be standard. It is really only in 3D games or 3D display managers
like Compiz where they will have appreciable benefit. With the right program
your card could easily display 25 photos per second with no flicker - this
is what any movie player needs to do!

Both Picasa and F-spot while feature rich, are probably rely too much on the
CPU to do their work. Picasa is basically a Windows program running in
emulation (using WINE), and F-spot is written using mono, which is a clone
of the .Net framework. Probably the slickest way to view photos (and do
basic manipulation) is gthumb. It used to be the default photo program until
Hardy (you may need to install it from synaptic if you did a fresh install
of Hardy).

I just did a 3-way test of the above 3 programs doing full-screen "paging"
through some photos and gthumb is far quicker (at least 3-4 times) than the
other two for this function. (I am viewing 2592x1944 images on a 1400x1050
so it has to do non-integer scaling/dithering to display these - which is
where I think your problem was occuring.)

Regards, Martin

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:08 PM, <andremangan at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is not the programme - the ATI Radeon 9250 is a slow coach.
>
> Andre
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> 2008/7/5 The Wassermans <dwass at optusnet.com.au>:
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> On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 15:21 +1000, The Wassermans wrote:
>> > Thank you all for your attention.  You can see, no doubt, what a
>> > sheltered life I have led.
>> >
>> > The video card I am using is an Model: RADEON 9250.  Chipset RADEON 9200
>> > Series AGP (0x5960).  It has a DVI port!  I'll connect that to see what
>> > happens . . . and will let you know in just a little while.
>> >
>> > Dave W
>> >
>>
>> Okay.  The DVI port works.  Indeed, it all looks more crisp now.  I
>> tried an album in both Picasa & F-Spot.  Photo's come up clear - I
>> think, on first blush they're okay in both applications.
>>
>> The problem is/was confined to when I start I slideshow, as both
>> applications make available.
>>
>> In the case of Picasa as soon as slideshow gets going the edges of
>> images blur.  "Dither" I think is the correct word.
>>
>> In the case of Ubuntu's F-Spot the slideshow is very slow.  It takes a
>> while to form the image.  Once done it is fine.
>>
>> It seems to me that in both cases the program has to think too hard what
>> to do??
>>
>> Any thoughts please.
>>
>> Dave
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